Talk:Attorney general

Crimea/USSR
These two entries seem out of place, all other entries in the second list refer to existing countries (at the "federal level").

Austalian Attorney General
Today it was announced under the new government would be Robert McLelland. Should this be changed?

Attorneys General
How about a section explaining why the plural is Attorneys General and not Attorney Generals. Ewlyahoocom 16:12, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Because Attorney General is Postpositive. The noun is attorney. "General" is an adjective. -- 67.42.107.14 (talk) 18:35, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Shouldn't Isle of Man fall under the UK heading in the list?
 * No, the Isle of Man is a Crown Dependency but not part of the United Kingdom. NRPanikker 01:16, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Subpoena power
Why is there no mention of the Attorney General's subpoena power?

I would have thought this is his main tool for conducting or initiating criminal investigations. No?91.149.13.201 21:45, 1 March 2007 (UTC)


 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the proposal was Move.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 03:54, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Requested move
I think the title should be "Attorney general". The "a" and "g" are, depending on context, capitalised when referring to a specific office (e.g., Attorney General of Australia), but not when referring generally to attorneys general. For example, "Three attorneys general filed a brief with the court." As a result, the first sentence of the lead should say, "In most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general, or attorney-general, is the main legal advisor to the government..." -Rrius (talk) 01:34, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Good call. Mooretwin (talk) 09:55, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I've added this page to WP:Requested moves. -Rrius (talk) 07:36, 19 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Support move. The article is about the offices (common noun) not the title (proper noun). --Bejnar (talk) 17:19, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

I am exceptional. Shah Alam samol (talk) 12:17, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Egyptian State Lawsuits Authority
I removed the reference to this as the section makes clear its more similar to the common law system's solicitor general than an attorney general. Plus it already has its own article and the section here merely restated the entirity of that article. - Chrism would like to hear from you 18:17, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

He or She
What is the relevance of the parenthetical "(he or she)" at the end of the first sentence in the Usage section? The sentence itself is already gender-neutral, and it's entirely unclear who this "(he or she)" is meant to refer to -- is it stating that the attorney general could be a he or a she? ... that the principal could be a he or a she? Either way it seems to me to be entirely pointless, as neither attorney nor principal have some sort of masculine/feminine word dichotomy: there is no "attornette general" or a "principelle" if you take my meaning. 72.218.100.143 (talk) 16:46, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

ToC query
Is there a particular reason why the ToC is limited to 2 levels? If it was to 3 levels, a list of the countries would be included - I was looking up for a particular country, and wondered why I had to scroll down until I found it! We don't need 4 levels (which would merely add the subdivisions of the UK to the ToC) - the 3 levels would be enough. If I have not heard otherwise within a couple of days, I will change it to TOClimit, which would give level 3 headings.  Phantom Steve  ( Contact Me, My Contribs ) 18:13, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I think the reason is obvious. The list is very long and creates large amount of white space. Whether the third level should appear on the ToC is open to debate, but perhaps we should look to another option. Perhaps we could divide the countries into groups. Countries could be sorted by continent, alphabetically (i.e., "A–K", "L–P"), or by some substantive consideration.


 * The full list of countries would take up space out of proportion to its importance to the article, but I do agree that some access to the country blurbs from the top would be better than the mere link to "Countries". -Rrius (talk) 20:23, 22 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Duh... I can be really stupid at times! The reason is obvious - however, I think that some quicker access method does need to be considered - although which of your excellent options should be chosen is beyond me, and I will leave that to the wise minds here.  Phantom Steve  ( Contact Me, My Contribs ) 20:28, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

French
Should the link to the french version not be to this page? http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procureur_general —Preceding unsigned comment added by Restraining (talk • contribs) 03:07, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

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Netherlands
I added a text about the attorney-general in The Netherlands. If I am correct, the role of the attorney-general at the Supreme Court is similar to the attorney-general at the European Court of Justice, and - if I am not mistaken - this construct came from a French tradition (like so many things in the Dutch legal system). Perhaps someone familiar with French law can provide a further clarification.

If I am correct, attorneys-general in other jurisdictions represent the government as a party in procedures. In The Netherlands, this role is fulfilled by commercial attorneys ("landsadvocaat") that also potentially serve other clients. Rbakels (talk) 10:34, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Need help Shah Alam samol (talk) 12:15, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

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Separating common law from civil law jurisdictions
I have separated out the common law jurisdictions from the civil law jurisdictions. As the comment above and existing content about Italy demonstrates, even though many civil law countries try to use "attorney general" as the English translation of local titles, because of the different historical provenance the offices are often quite different. Whatever the name, the common law "attorney general" is a different creature to similar civil law offices. Separating those out into a separate section avoids all the confusion about whether or to what extent an Italian or German official is similar to an English attorney-general or American attorney general. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.189.73.197 (talk) 10:15, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

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